I asked 2,000 people what their favourite book is 🫣 your best novels ever

30. 1984 29. The Hobbit 28. Piranesi 27. Harry Potter series 26. War and Peace 25. Song of Achilles 24. Normal People 23. The Bell Jar 22. The Catcher in the Rye 21. A Little Life 20. Les Miserable 19. The Master and the Margarita 18. The Night Circus 17. The Little Prince 16. Crime and Punishment 15. The Brothers Kalamazoo 14. Pride and Prejudice 13. East of Eden 12. Anna Karina 11. Little Women 10.The Book Thief 09. The Secret History 08. Anne of Green Gables 07. Wuthering Heights 06. The Fellowship of the Ring 05. The Count of Monte Christo 04. Jane Eyre 03. The Picture of Dorian Grey 02. Frankenstein 01. One Hundred Years of Solitude

Jane Eyre is in my top books of all time because it’s a story about two people meeting each other’s freak❤

The Book Thief ❤ It's about reading, writing, and the importance of words. And how those three things can change, nourish and even save your life.

Yayy lets gooo ive been waiting for a sequel for the “Iasked 1000 people their favorite book” for over two years

I have told this story before on other posts, and channels, maybe yours, but here it is again. East of eden is everything to me. I am visually impaired, a braille reader. back when I grew up braille was hard to come by. you had to rely on what the libraries decided to print. certain popular books took years to come out, and you had to borrow them. one braille book is several volumes, and they were too expensive to buy. they had to be shipped in huge boxes, and sometimes because of mail issues only parts of them would come. I cried many tears when I was younger about not being able to just read. I hated audiobooks, and I wanted books in braille. east of eden was one that was hand copied. these books are only loned in limited numbers and for a few weeks. you have no idea how excited I was to get this book borrowed. I devoured it. I loved every page. when I sent it back I was devastated. now happily braille is easy to come by with technology, books to download, and braille displays to read books on. I can now read my favorite book anytime I want. east of eden has everything, great characters, a multigenerational story, good characters who sometimes do horrible things, and bad characters who you sometimes root for and wonder why. It is quite simply a masterpiece.

My Brilliant friend - Elena Ferrante Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy The Island of the missing trees - Elif Shafak Circe - Madeline Mille [Song of achilles too] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brothe The housekeeper and the professor - Yoko Ogawa All the lovers in the night - Miko Kawakami All of Jane Austen really And most recent addition to the list: Things you may find hidden in my ear - Mosab Abu Toha

I voted for The Picture of Dorian Gray and the way I SHRIEKED when it made it to third place!!! It was like watching a football match LOL

I voted Jane Eyre! I mean honestly, the writing, Jane’s resilience, spiritual themes and personal growth are themes that flow together so naturally. Also, finding one’s worth after so much trauma is probably what drew me in❤

One Hundred Years of Solitude ruining every other book for you is so real because I literally DNF'd Allende's House of the Spirits because the whole time I was like, "I wish this was One Hundred Years of Solitude, actually". 😂

Also you and Carolyn should be proud, I think this list is the way it is because you two have pushed us to read some of these intimidating monsters. Your first version of this was my first video of yours, and so many of these on this list I believe are influenced by your viewers much more than they were before. It’s really cool to see!

I don't know how much deliberation I will require to be able to express how Frankenstein, almost overnight, transformed from a novel which I had a complete misunderstanding of became my obsession. There is something within this novel that I have never been able to forget. I still do not know what it is xx

One of the things I like the most about you, Emma, is how you’ve made a lot of people around the world get to know books that aren’t just the typical recommendation. You read from contemporary YA to classics and the work you do here is remarkable. But beyond that, I always get so thrilled that you give them the chance to know and read Latin American literature: Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, etc. and I think that is just amazing. Time will go by and the work you’re doing here and the mark you’re leaving on people is just always gonna be so precious ❤ thank you for loving books from my country and Latin America in general so much, I really hope you get to do what you love forever ❤

so glad Piranesi made the list!!! its my all time favorite, I even plan on getting a tattoo for it! also, The Starless Sea deserved all the love The Night Circus was getting... Piranesi may be my favorite, but I think The Starless Sea is the most stunning collection of words I'll ever read

I think The Secret History is so many people's favorite because (imo) there's a lot to unpack and a lot to speculate about). ofc i say this absolutely adoring it but its def not everyone's cup of tea!!!

Don't mind Emmie literally knowing pretty much all the books' starting sentences off the top of her head?! YOU'RE LITERALLY AMAZING ILYYY

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Next time you should do a survey in google forms or something like that :) so you don't have to spend a lot of time checking instagram answers (which mut have been very difficult)

this is such a cool way of getting book recommendations, I needed this!!

Jane Eyre☺️ I don’t know how to explain my love for this book. I think nostalgia plays a big role at this point, as I’ve been reading it since I was very young, but I guess there are two types of people -those who fall in love with Rochester and those who don’t 😅To me, this book is perfect❤

Jane Eyre, of all the fictional characters I've read so far, is the one I relate the most. Because, of course, even if we do not share the exact experiences in life, we share so much of our life's reflections. I can sympathize with her like how I pitied my poor self before. We've thought and felt and desired in similar ways, and I was also learning from her. Her character growth is also well-crafted, Charlotte made the transitions seamless. I felt so many emotions and I was so attached. I have felt her pain, hoped the same hope for her, rejoiced in her successes, had fun and fell in love with their dialogues of Mr. Rochester, and was curious too with the mysteries of the tale. Just amazing 💚